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JULY 23, 2013

Newport Beach-based patent and IP licensing firm Acacia Research announced this morning that it has named a new VP to to head up its efforts in Asia. working on IP licensing, litigation, patent acquisitions and business development. international executive property intellectual licensing patent research acacia'

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Newport Beach-based patent storehouse Acacia Research said today that it has named Matthew Vella as President of the firm. Vella has been at Acacia Research Group since 2006, and has been serving as Executive Vice President since October of last year. Prior to Acacia, Vella had served at ATI Research and Nortel Networks.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Newport Beach-based patent licensing firm Acacia Research has made its first move into the blockchain and cryptocurrency market, saying this morning that it has made an investment in New York-based Bitzumi.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 22, 2013

JumpStartFund , which is based in El Segundo, opened up its service this morning to help use the wisdom of the crowd to move ideas, patents, and research from individuals, federal research labs, universities, and research organizations to the market. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 11, 2012

Acacia Research , the patent and licensing firm which aggressively licenses its portfolio of patents to technology companies, said Monday that it has acquired 7 medtech patent portfolios, comprising over 150 patents and pending applications. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2012

Newport Beach-based Acacia Research , the technology patent licensing firm, said today that it has named two VPs. Acacia Research acquires patents, aggressively pursuing technology firms for IP licensing and patent infringement. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2015

Pasadena-based Arrowhead Research said this morning that it has acquired the entire RNAI research and development portfolio and associated assets of Novartis. Arrowhead will also gain a number of patents and patent applications related to the RNAi technology. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 1, 2012

Newport Beach-based Acacia Research , the patent licensing outfit which acquires and aggressively licenses patents, is eyeing the digital imaging market, saying this morning that one of its subsidiaries has acquired a number of patents originally issued to Polaroid. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

According to the firm, the new patent covers its production process and fluorinated multi-layered carbon nanomaterials, which are used in its batteries. patent is number 7794880, and according to the U.S. Patent and Trademark office was filed in November of 2006. Tags: contour energy systems battery patent flourine.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Newport Beach-based patent licensing firm Acacia Research Corporation has scored a major patent lawsuit win, this time against Yahoo! , According to Acacia Research, its subsidiary, Creative Internet Advertising Corporation, has received $12.4M in a final judgment for willful infringement of the firm's patents.

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socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2010

Newport Beach-based Acacia Research , which aggressively acquires and licenses patents, said today that it has acquired two patent portfolios, made up of 24 U.S. patents, 7 U.S. patent applications, and 18 foreign patents, from a "major" technology company.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Irvine-based Netlist said earlier this week that it has appointed a new Vice President of Research and Development. Netlist, a maker of high speed memory subsystems, is in the midst of a patent dispute with Westlake Village-based Inphi Corp., over patents covering DDR3 and other memory interfaces for semiconductors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2014

I always advise software startups to file patents to protect their “secret sauce” from competitors, and to increase their valuation. The good news is that a patent can scare off or at least delay competitors, and as a “rule of thumb” patents can add up to $1M to your startup valuation for investors or M&A exits (merger and acquisition).

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

San Diego-based Illumina said today that it has been served with a complaint alleging patent infringement, from Carlsbad-based Life Technologies. The patents in questions are U.S. Patents 5,616,478; 5,958,698; and 6,001,568. Tags: life technologies illumina lifescience biotech patent legal lawsuit.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Bowen was most recently Senior Director of Scientific Research in the Department of Research and Technology Development at Illumina, where the company said he led the research team that conceptualized and developed the patterned flow cell format and manufacturing methods for Illumina's NovaSeq equipment. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2012

I always advise software startups to file patents to protect their “secret sauce” from competitors, and to increase their valuation. This patent holding company has charged infringement and demanded royalties from every app developer for the iPhone and Android, for a feature most agree has been in apps for many years.

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Berkonomics

JULY 18, 2019

Patents, branding, marketing and more. In the patent world, we protect this intellectual core with what we call a “patent thicket,” aptly describing the attempt to surround the core patent with other patents that defend the core and further prevent competitors from attacking the central component of the business.

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socalTECH

JUNE 3, 2013

Newport Beach-based patent licensing firm Acacia Research Corporation announced this morning that it has named an energy industry executive as a Senior Vice President at the company. Acacia Research owns a large storehouse of patents, which it licenses (often aggressively) to other companies. READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 31, 2020

The company created a product that could be delivered as a service to medical clinicians anywhere in the world, enhancing their ability to understand their patents’ problems and needs in less time, using the expertise built into an AI expert system created by the best minds in many medical specialties.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2011

I always advise software startups to file patents to protect their “secret sauce” from competitors, and to increase their valuation. The bad news is that patent trolls can squeeze the lifeblood out of innocent and unsuspecting entrepreneurs, as exemplified by the current mess around Lodsys patent No.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 13, 2012

Newport Beach-based patent licensing firm Acacia Research said today that one of its subsidiaries has acquired ADAPTIX , a developer of 4G wireless technology, for $160M. ADAPTIX holds 230 issued and pending patents in 13 countries, focused on 4G technology such as OFDMA and MIMO. Acacia is led by Paul Ryan. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

patents and published over 350 technical papers. His research includes refractory materials, new synthetic ceramics, super-hard metals and conducting polymers. He holds 23 U.S. Graphene is 200 times stronger than steel, one atom thick, transparent, non-polluting and economical.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 7, 2017

A well-developed patent portfolio (along with an intellectual property portfolio, generally) conveys a high degree of technical and commercial sophistication to potential investors, customers, competitors, and licensees. and abroad.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 29, 2013

It''s a place where people can submit their ideas and patents, and we provide a platform for them to try to find entrepreneurs who would like to work on those patents together with us an the crowd. Dirk Ahlborn: What makes this special, is we''re actively going out to work with federal research labs, companies like Aerospace Corp.,

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Berkonomics

JUNE 20, 2019

[Email readers, continue here…] There are rules of thumb for various industries in creating a reserve for research and development. It is a certainty that even with patent protection, a successful product will be challenged, duplicated, even exceeded by competitors, and within increasingly shortened time periods.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 20, 2017

The office helps license technology and patents from the school to startups and other companies, as well as helps take ideas created by professors and researchers to market. Gilbert was the "founding father of technology transfer" at Caltech, according to the school, forming the Office of Technology Transfer in 1995. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2014

An invalidated patent or one deemed to infringe the rights of another party can devastate a startup. Defensible Claims - Some companies take pride in the number of patents they own. However, there is not a direct correlation between a patent portfolio’s value and the number of patents which comprise the portfolio.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 25, 2019

Three decades later, I’m a successful biomedical researcher and serial entrepreneur with more than 120 patents to my name, and eight successful businesses under my belt.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Those drugs have now become the center of a patent dispute between the Foster City, CA, drug maker and the federal government. This week, the government filed a patent infringement suit in federal court against Gilead (NASDAQ: GILD ).

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 30, 2023

Risk level has always been directly correlated to the number of unknowns, so eliminating even one variable will improve your odds: Eliminate one aspect of research and development. According to a classic Harvard Research study, first inventors spend at least a third more on their initial technology than later innovators.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 3, 2011

Newport Beach-based Acacia Research , the patent licensing firm, said this morning that it has hired on two new executives. The firm said it has hired Alfredo M. Lezama and Nathan Grossman as Vice Presidents of Business Development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2010

I always advise software startups to file patents to protect their “secret sauce” from competitors, and to increase their valuation. Yet the software patent process is a mess. I say this with conviction even after I survived the process, and have a software patent pending. Patents granted that don’t meet the criteria.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Newport Beach-based Acacia Research , the patent portfolio and licensing firm, said today that it has named David Rosmann as Senior Vice President. Rosmann has previously served as Vice President, Intellectual Property Litigation at Broadcom Corporation, where he managed the firm's IP litigation efforts for over ten years.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 23, 2012

In the patent world, we protect this intellectual core with what we call a “patent thicket,” aptly describing the attempt to surround the core patent with other patents that defend the core and further prevent competitors from attacking the central component of the business.

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socalTECH

MAY 4, 2011

patents for direct methanol fuel cell technology. SFC Energy said it will gain a nonexclusive license to the universities' various methanol fuel cell patents. The three said the technology was developed at the USC Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute, led by G. Financial details of the licensing deal were not disclosed.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 22, 2018

Our research revealed a saturation level causing unprecedented challenges, starting with exorbitant housing prices and runaway operating costs that accelerate a startup’s “burn rate”—its monthly spending. In fact, as is well-reported, the luster of Silicon Valley is fading.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2020

Risk level has always been directly correlated to the number of unknowns, so eliminating even one variable will improve your odds: Eliminate one aspect of research and development. According to a classic Harvard Research study, first inventors spend at least a third more on their initial technology than later innovators.

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